Method of treating fur



Patented Aug. 9, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE METHOD OF TREATING FURJenny Jacobs, New York, N. Y.

'No Drawing. Application July 15, 1937, Serial No. 153,759

4 Claims.

to provide a method of subjecting fur pieces, and

5 particularly wearing apparel articles, such as coats, muffs and neckpieces, to a simple treatment, which may be carried out by housewivesand ordinary users of the above mentioned fur articles, and by which thearticle is subjected in the course of a single treatment to all orseveral of the following actions, namely: a. fur cleaning action, a skinor hide oiling action, a glazing action, and moth repellent action,antiseptic, germicidal or other pest control properties to the furpiece.

The present invention is characterized by the working of a comminuted orgranular treatment agent into and through the hairs of the fur piecetreated, by a combing action. The latter may be carried out by means ofa comb of the type ordinarily used by women in combing their hair. Thetreatment agent employed in accordance with the present invention,comprises a comminuted or granular base fibrous material, such asshredded leather, or ground asbestos fibers,

having absorbent properties, and adapted to engage frictionally with thehairs of the fur piece treated and with the teeth of the comb by whichthe material is worked into and through the fur,

and which is relatively soft, and does not have sharp edges tending tosever or break the hairs of the fur piece treated. The base materialadvantageously incorporates or is mixed with substances treated with, orcomprising a hide or skin softening and preservative agent such as pineoil, a disinfectant or germicide such as phenol, and. a glazing agentsuch as casein.

In the preferred mode of practicing the present invention, the treatingagent is sprinkled over the fur piece to be treated, and is then workedintoand through the hairs of the fur piece by a simple combing action.The effect of thus working a treating agent such, for example, asshredded leather impregnated with pine oil, phenol, and casein throughthe fur, is to oil the skin or hide base of the fur piece, to clean. thefur in consequence of adherence of dirt in the fur to the fibroustreatment agent, to so distribute the phenol through the fur that only arelatively very small amount of phenol is required to insure an adequatemoth repellent action, and to give the hairs of the fur a lustrouscasein coating, which, in conjunction with the combing action,

causes the hairs to stand up, and thus produces a desirable glazingeffect.

The combing action may'be effected by the use of. an ordinary comb ofany form used by women in combing their hair, but preferably is not ametal comb, but a comb made of a strong ,moldable material such as a soybean composition. The base treatment material may consist of one, or amixture of two or more suitable substances. I have found itadvantageous, to mix some granular cork with shredded leather in formingthe treatment agent, as that mixture is free from a matting tendency,sometimes experienced when the base material consists only of shreddedleather.

I am aware of prior proposals to use a granular material, such asparticles of corn-oil-cake meal, sawdust, and ground corn cobs, usuallysaturated with gasoline or an analogous cleaning fluid, as a cleaningagent to be worked into, and beaten out of furs in a rotating tumblingbarrel, or furs subjected to some other form of a beating or poundingaction, but the tumbling barrel and beating fur treatments are notequivalent to the combing action employed by me, and the last mentionedmaterials do not have properties well adapted for use with my combingaction.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A method of fur treatment which consists in working a comminuted,relatively soft, solid fibrous material through the fur by manuallycombing said material into and through the fur, said material beingimpregnated with a hide softening, a pest control and glaze coatingagents.

2. A method of fur treatment which consists in working a comminuted,relatively soft, material through the fur by manually combing saidmaterial into and through the fur, said material comprising shreddedleather impregnated with a substance adapted to be transferred to thefur through which the material is worked.

7 3. A method of fur treatment which consists in working a comminuted,relatively soft material impregnated with a pest control agent throughthe fur by manually combing said material into and through the fur.

4. A-method of fur treatment which consists in working a comminuted,relatively soft material impregnated With a glazing agent through thefur by manually combing said material into and through the fur.

JENNY JACOBS.

